{idate}27jan06

{crop}GlassBeads/2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1946crop.jpg

{crop_alt}spring bullseye curliQs

{iplc}Huh.  Well, the wizard kindly hooked up the metalworking torch
and I *actually turned it on* the first time since we moved. Or tried
to, about six times, before I managed to add oxygen to the acetylene
flame without blowing it out. (I have a meco n-midget, which is what
my second metalworking teacher recommended, though the guys at the
welding shop now tell me to avoid their regulators like the plague.) 
As easy as the surface-mix lampworking torches are to ignite, I'd
forgotten about that little annoyance. Anyway, perhaps I'll finally
start brazing again...in the meantime, here are the "curliQ
versions"</GlassBeads/2006spring_bullseye_curliQ.html> of the bullseye
spring pastel series.

{tags}2006spring_bullseye,curliQ,

{thumb}[2006spring_bullseye]GlassBeads/2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1946crop.jpg

{summary}[2006spring_bullseye]"Designer
curliQs"<2006spring_bullseye_curliQ.html>.

{summary}[curliQ]"curliQ version"<2006spring_bullseye_curliQ.html> of
a 2006 series of bullseye designer size beads in spring pastels.

{cdate}20jan2006

{h1}CurliQs in Colors

{h2}soft enough for spring

{ts}200x500

{p}My efforts at making curliQs my partner likes have up to now more
or less ended in failure: she generally found my color schemes too
harsh more her tastes and ended up buying more black and white
curliQs, which I personally considered a failure, than anything else.

{p}These pastels, of course, I made on a whim, to use up some glass
broken in a shipment.  (My conversation with the shipper was kind of
interesting: Them: Can you repair this stuff? Me: Well, um, sort of.
I can heat the rods and stick them back together, but they'll be
shocky and scummy at the joins, and too long to anneal very readily,
and...  Them: it sounds like it *can't* really be repaired.  Me: Oh, I
don't want to deceive you.  It can certainly be salvaged, and I'm not
gonna throw it out, it's just that it'll be harder to use, and take me
longer to make the same bead, and there will be some beads I won't
really want to make at all, because of the scum--- Them: we'll just
say it can't.  You can still have the broken glass.  Me: thank you
very much.  ---The really embarressing part of this conversation is
that it happened about a year ago, and I've hardly made a dent in all
that glass I bought, and I bought somewhere between 20 and 40 *pounds*
of this stuff...ah, the deadliness of sales.)

{icap}2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1949.jpg

{cap}Mixed colors.  Hollow bullseye, 2005, largest bead approximately 13mm

{p}Actually I consider the assorted beads shown above to be the least
successful, which is why there is only one each.  Combinations I liked
better got repeated:

{t}2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1945.jpg

{l}2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1945.jpg

{d}"pink and green"<2006_spring_bullseye_curliQ1945.jpg> ---yeah, oh
so yuppie, but I've always liked this color combination.

{t}2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1946.jpg

{l}2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1946.jpg

{d}Hurray for "truly opaque pink stringer"<2006spring_bullseye_curliQ1946.jpg>.

{p}file created 19jan06; curliQ summary added 19nov06.